GSP names price for Anderson Silva bout

Dana White has professed that for the right amount of money he can make any fight happen in the UFC, and GSP may be taking that proclamation to the limit. According to a close source to GSP, the UFC welterweight champion wants $50 million to take the fight with Anderson Silva. While that may sound like an absurd amount of money it is not out of the realm of possibility. The reason being that high profile fighters like GSP do not rely just on their purse to make all their money for a fight.

Not only will GSP pull in the bout purse, but he will also have a cut of PPV buys and sponsorship money. There is little doubt that the fight between the two champions will most likely do the biggest amount of PPV buys the UFC has ever seen and could possibly pull in anywhere near 2 million buys. With that kind of exposure, sponsors will be throwing money at GSP to have their name anywhere. Now, whatever the difference between what sponsors pay and PPV cuts from the $50 million GSP wants will be what the UFC has to supply.

For people thinking that GSP is throwing out these kind of numbers to back out of the fight would be dead wrong. In fact, GSP has very sound reasoning for wanting this amount of money. The source of this information also said that GSP makes about $8 million a fight, and has about 10 more fights to make that amount of money. The problem is GSP believes he could get seriously injured or even have a career ending injury in a bout with Silva. So, he wants to make as much money in this one fight that he would over the rest of his career just in case he is unable to fight after it.

To me Anderson should fight Jones. I think it would be a better fight, GSP has a lot more challenges at 170lbs and seems like he doesn’t want the fight. Fine with me, I know he’s not scared seeing he fights in a cage for a living. GSP vs Hendricks and SILVA vs Jones! Do that at Dallas stadium.

If PAC and Mayweather, two of boxing’s greatest fighters now, are asking for 50 mil each, I don’t see why GSP and Silva should not get the same. You know Dana and the Fertittas is going to be making a boat load of cash.

Whatever happend to “i’ll fight anyone”? Both GSP and Silva is a couple of spoiled spoiled pussycats. If they’re not hungrier than that, more willing to give the world what we want, i don’t need ’em anymore. (And yes, i DO think they are the two best fighters ever to walk this earth, still puss’es obviously tho.)

First of all the best fighters in the world are in the UFC.. Anderson silva, john jones, gsp, jose aldo, shogun, benson henderson, Dos santos, etc…

Anderson silva vs. gsp is a mismatch; only way gsp would win is if he could take silva down. And I dont know if Gsp is stronger or even a better wrestler than Sonnon. Jones is a better fight for silva. Gsp has many contenders; I believe if he is to fight silva he must first clean out his division like silva has done